Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-18
18th Congress---second Session.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IT, 1887.

WASHINGTON, Jan. l1, 1So1. SENATA-Nr. Edrnunds, referring to the postal telegraph bill which WAS referred tC the Postoffice committee, hoped the commit tee would report it favorably or otherwise, in order that he might get the judgment of the Senate on it.
 MT. Hoar made report on the electoral count bill, which was ordered printed and postponed until to- morrow. The Senate then passed forty pension bills, $75, ,O00, 900 was passed with some unimpor- tant amendments.
 The army appropriation bill was then call ed up and passed.
 The Senate took up the bill to establish agricultural experimental stations in connec tion with agricultural colleges. Mr. Ingalls characterized the bill as crude and imperfect It illustrated tendency to interpretation of the national government in local affairs.
 MT. Vest saw no difference in this re- spect between this bill and the Blair educa- tional bill.
 Mr. Butler favored the bill.
 Without action on the bill the Senate ad- journed.
 HoUsE.-Among the bills introduced and referred was one by MT. Lowering, of Massa' chusetts, granting pension of $25 per month to Walt. Whitman. In introducing the bill Mr. Lowering said Whitman had made no application for pension, but that the bill WAS introduced at the request of member of the Whitman family.
 The interstate commerce conference was called up. MT. Anderson raised the question of consideration against the report. The House refused to enter the point; yeas 113, avs 137.
 The House took up the bill granting a pension of SIP monthly to indlgent soldiers. After debate the bill was passed; yeas 179, nays 76. The bill provides that parents of deceased soldiers in cases where there are no widows or minor children shall be only re- quired to show that they are without other present means of support than their own manual labor, and that this being done, they and all persons who served three months or more in any war in which the United States has been engaged, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom and are incapacitated for the per formance of labor sufficient to earn support, shall be placed on the list of invalid pension CTS and be entitled to $12 per month, such pensions to commence upon the filing of appli- cation in the pension office. The act does not apply to persons under political disabili- ty.
 rules be suspended and the House concur in the Senate amendment to the Mexican pen sion bill.
 MT. Bragg opposed the bill because it pro- posed service pension. He also gave his reason for voting against the bill which the House had just passed. He thought it should be entitled s'A bill to pension the rubbish of the armies of the United States and to revive the business of the agents" It covered every substitute, bounty jamper and scalawag that went into the army.
 At the conclusion of MT. Bragg's remarks the rules were suspended and the Senate amendment to the bill was concurred in. The bill will now be sent to the President. It provides that pension of $S month shall be paid to all surviving officers and enlisted men, including marines, militia and volunteers of the military and naval service of the United States who being duly enlisted and who served sixty days with the army or navy in Mexico or on the coasts or en route thereto and were honorably discharged, and to such other officers and soldiers as may have been personally named in any resolutions of Con- gress for any special service ill said war and the surviving widows of such officers and enlisted men, providing that such widows have not remarked; provided that every is or may become sixty-two years of age or is or may become subject to any disability equivalent to some cause prescribed or recognized by the pen sion laws of the United States as 8 sufficient reason fer the allowance of a pension, shall be entitled to the benefit of this; but it shall not be held to include any person not within the rule of age or disability or dependency herein defined. Section 4,716 of the Revised Statutes is repealed so far as it relates to this act or to pensioners under this act.
 Mr. Springer on behalf of the Committee on Claims, moved to suspend the rules and pass the Senate bill amendatory of the Bowman claim act.
 Pending action the House ad djourned.